Quarantines

April 21, 2020

FOMO Is Over. Give In to the Joy of Letting Go.

Self-seclusion, Week 1. I’d been planning to watch over the health of loved ones. But I’d also been looking forward to having time on my hands: […]
April 20, 2020

What It’s Like Self-Isolating in a Studio Apartment

Paris has its garrets; London, its bedsits. In New York, it’s the studio apartment — and its grittier cousin, the tenement railroad flat — that has […]
April 18, 2020

The Seas as the Ultimate Coronavirus Isolation? Not. So. Fast.

Simon and Carla Fowler are anchored in their catamaran about 650 feet off a deserted beach in the Bahamas, and they have a message for anyone […]
April 17, 2020

We All Live in Bubbles Now. How Safe Is Yours?

The problem was not the girlfriend, the singer, the drummer and the guitarist told their recording engineer. They liked his girlfriend. They trusted his girlfriend. It […]
April 17, 2020

We All Live in Bubbles Now. How Safe Is Yours?

The problem was not the girlfriend, the singer, the drummer and the guitarist told their recording engineer. They liked his girlfriend. They trusted his girlfriend. It […]
April 16, 2020

How to Handwash Your Clothes

Laundromats have been deemed essential businesses in cities and states that have issued stay-at-home orders to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. But many laundry […]
April 14, 2020

Feel Like You’re in Prison? These Trainers Actually Were

Like a lot of self-isolating people, Madisen Li is vacillating between nervous, bored, grateful and irritable. One of her main forms of relief comes from her […]
April 14, 2020

Feel Like You’re in Prison? These Trainers Actually Were

Like a lot of self-isolating people, Madisen Li is vacillating between nervous, bored, grateful and irritable. One of her main forms of relief comes from her […]
April 8, 2020

The Passover Rules Bend, if Just for One Pandemic

During the coronavirus outbreak, people have stocked up on shelf-stable items like beans, pasta and bread to sustain them through weeks of staying at home. But, […]
April 7, 2020

Quinn the Quarantine Fox Wants You to Be Safe at Home

The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting buyers from the dangers of household items, issuing recalls and teaching people how to avoid […]